Risk Assessments

Pest Risk Assessments

Includes most recent Risk Assessment for the United States, as well as links to the recent Risk Assessments for P. ramorum in the State of Oregon, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Risk Matrix

Includes hosts, symptoms, disease distribution area, and general experimental methodology. The species, commodity, available scientific data, and the prinicipal investigator are also listed. This risk matrix is a draft developed during the summer, 2004. It was assembled by USDA-APHIS, Center for Plant Health Science and Technology, Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information contact David Kaplan.

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About the Task Force. Created in August 2000, the California Oak Mortality Task Force (COMTF) is a nonprofit organization, under the California Forest Pest Council, that brings together public agencies, other nonprofit organizations and private interests to address the issue of elevated levels of oak mortality. The Task Force will implement a comprehensive and unified approach for research, management, education and public policy. Copyright 2004, COMTF